On this page

Hopefully, someday, this page will eventually show one North Carolina passenger car plate for each year they've been
issued.

I don't actually collect North Carolina license plates, except in the few cases where I need one to complete a
set. However, I've lived in North Carolina since 2001, and so I see current North Carolina license plates in use
every day, and I have them registered to my own vehicles. I regularly end up with old North Carolina plates in my
trade box, and I also see them used on antique vehicles. As a result of all of this, I'm able to provide
information about and photos of N.C. plates despite not collecting them.

Unlike the rest of my site, hardly any of the photos shown on my North Carolina pages are from my personal
collection. I haven't meticulously identified the source of every plate that's not from my collection on these
pages, but I did photograph every plate shown unless it's credited otherwise.

If you have, or can take, a digital photo of a plate from a year not shown below, send it to me in an
e-mail attachment. I'll add it to this page, and will credit you for
submitting it. For any plates dated 1955 or earlier, please also provide me with the dimensions of the plate, so
that I may make the size of the image in proportion to the others.

(1916 – Havnaer photo of a plate owned by Quillman H. Wood. 1918, 1920, 1940, and
1964 – Long photos and plates. 1933 – Baldwin photo and plate.
1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, and 1975 – Madsen photos and plates.
1944, 1945, 1948, 1981, and 1992 – Weddington photos and plates;
1953, 1954, and 1958 – Beard photos and plates.
1956 plate is owned by a fellow plate collector whose name I didn't get.
1983 – Frazier photo and plate.
1987 and 1996 – Jackson photos and plates.
The 1959 and 1977 plates are from my own collection. All others either are or were previously in my trade
box, are or were once registered to my car, are candid photos of plates in actual use, or have crossed my path in
some other manner.)